Fans Get Too Close to Rumi Carter at the ‘Cowboy Carter Tour’ Until They See …Jay-Z
Behind Florida’s Sheriff’s ‘We Will Kill You’ to Anti-Trump Protesters
What Black Men Secretly Want For Father’s Day
5 Gangsta Moves From Gov. Gavin Newsom Throughout the Years
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Help! I Don’t Think I Can Do It Alone
For the first time in more than 25 years, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has likely surpassed 9 percent. According to a Bloomberg News Survey – who issued their findings prior to the official report by the Labor Department due June 5 – according to a median of 59 estimates, the jobless rate has…
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Does Real Housewife NeNe Leakes Deserve a Book Deal? And Other Lit-Related Questions
Who Deserves a Book Deal? NeNe Leakes, one of the real housewives of Atlanta recently sold a book called “Never Make the Same Mistake Twice: Straight Talk on Love and Life from a Real Housewife.” It’ll publish in July and will be written with Denene Millner, who coauthored Steve Harvey’s “Act Like a Lady, Think…
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Obama Speaks on Murder of Kansas Abortion Doctor
The murder of Dr. George Tiller—an abortion rights advocate who practiced medicine and performed abortions in Kansas—as he attended church services Sunday morning, has prompted this statement from President Barack Obama: I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as…
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Newark Mayor Doesn't Want to Be Race Transcendant
Newark Mayor Cory Booker sits down with Bill Moyers of PBS to discuss race, politics and the American future. The brotha is a young up and comer who seems to really care what’s going on in his community and this interview is certainly worth the sit-down.
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When Ice = Avant Garde
Paul Miller, better known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is the man the Sunday Star Times calls “Einstein with a better haircut, a streetwise black Tolstoy, sharp as Zorro’s sword, funny as Falstaff.” He made his name on the international art scene juggling multiple roles as a composer, multimedia artist, writer and DJ. His…
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King Casting Call
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” In our minds, the quintessential King reprisal came by way of veteran actor Jeffrey Wright in the film Boycott. Wright’s hue might be off. But The Root is above discrimination based on color, class or creed. There’s no doubting this…
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Black Cop Gunned Down—By His Colleague
Here we go again. Last night, an off-duty, black NYPD cop, 25-year-old Omar Edwards, was shot and killed by his white colleague, Officer Andrew Dunton. Edwards, a rookie who worked in a Housing Unit in Harlem, left work and walked up to his car to find a robber breaking in. Edwards tried to grab the…
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Video: A Gathering Storm…of Gays!
What’s sad is that there are people who really feel this way.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Puts Black Women at Risk
Vitamin D Deficiency Puts Black Women at Risk A study conducted at the Unversity of Pittsburgh has found that Vitamin D deficiencies among Black women increase the risk of vaginosis, a bacterial disease that affects the vagina, BET reports. The higher pigment leads to harder absorption of the vitamin and increases risk of vaginosis. The…